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Rich Abott
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Navy/USMCGeneral Atomics Demonstrates Its Stingray Carrier Deck Handling
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc (GA-ASI) successfully demonstrated aircraft carrier deck handling with a surrogate MQ-25 Stingray, the company said Monday. Using a Predator C Avenger unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) […]
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Missile DefenseGreaves Sees F-35 Helping Missile Defense, Hypersonic Threat Coming From Iran And North Korea
The director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) told Congress last week that he sees F-35 aircraft helping aid missile defense activities in the six to seven-year timeframe, albeit mostly […]
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Navy/USMCHuntington Ingalls Updates Ships Statuses, Reactivates Ingalls East Bank
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding President Jennifer Boykin provided an update on the various stages of construction on several major Navy shipbuilding programs during the Navy League’s Sea Air […]
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Navy/USMCGeurts Says Carrier Block Buy Analysis Coming Soon
The Navy’s chief acquisition official told Congress last Thursday it plans to have an analysis of how much a block buy of the Ford-class carriers CVN-80 and 81 will cost […]
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UncategorizedItaly Live Fire Tests AARGM, U.S. Navy Says AARGM-ER Will Have Notable Range Improvement
The U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) revealed the week of April 1 the Italian Air Force conducted a successful test of the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Says It Will Extend Life Of All DDG-51s, Reaching 355 Ships in 2030s
The deputy chief of naval operations for warfare systems said on Thursday that the Navy is now planning to extend the life of all of its Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) guided-missile […]
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Navy/USMCHII Awarded Navy’s LX(R) Selection
Last week the Navy announced in a FedBizOpps posting that it selected Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding to build the LX(R) amphibious transport dock replacement with Flight II San […]
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Navy/USMCDavidson At Fleet Forces Tapped For PACOM
Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced late Tuesday that the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command is being nominated to head U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM). While at Fleet Forces, Adm. […]
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Navy/USMCHII Sees Two Carrier Buy Saving $1.6 Billion Before GFE
National Harbor, Md. — The president of Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) said the company sees a two-carrier purchase of the next Gerald R. Ford-class carriers as […]
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Missile DefenseMDA Tests THAAD And Patriot Interoperability
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Army jointly successfully tested a missile defense tracking exercise last week to demonstrate the interoperability between the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and […]
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